Volume 23, Number 7 · April 29, 1976
Frustrated Father
By W.H.C. Frend
Jerome: His Life, Writings and Controversies
by J.N.D. Kelly
Harper and Row, 353 pp., $15.00
In the final decades of the fourth century, Latin Christianity produced three great leaders, whose actions and ideas have influenced Western Christendom to this day. Ambrose of Milan's excommunication of the emperor Theodosius I in 391 for allowing 7,000 innocent citizens of Thessalonica to be massacred by his troops asserted that no one was above moral law, which was enforced by the Church, and assured the primacy of spiritual over secular authority in the West. Augustine of Hippo's legacy permeated medieval thought and included many seminal ideas of the Reformation and Counter Reformation.
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